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Today β€” 22 December 2024TechCrunch News

xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot

22 December 2024 at 23:29

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now.

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X jacks up Premium+ prices by 37.5%, hits some markets harder

22 December 2024 at 18:53

X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service, Premium+, by 37.5% to $22 a month, marking the largest price increase since Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022. The price hike will first affect U.S. users, going up from $16, effective December 21, according to a statement. Annual subscriptions have also climbed to $229 […]

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Sriram Krishnan named Trump’s senior policy advisor for AI

22 December 2024 at 14:36

Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump said in a statement that Krishnan will β€œhelp shape and coordinate AI policy across government, working with […]

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Palantir and Anduril reportedly building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts

22 December 2024 at 14:12

Two big defense tech players, Palantir and Anduril, are talking to tech companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, according to a report in the Financial Times. The goal, the FT says, is to challenge the dominance of β€œprime” defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, […]

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Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around β€˜for a little while’

22 December 2024 at 12:42

With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. β€œWe’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, we did go on TikTok, and we had a great response with billions of views, […]

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OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to β€˜think’ about its safety policy

22 December 2024 at 10:30

OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it’s released. These improvements appear to have come from scaling test-time compute, something we wrote about last month, but OpenAI also says it used a new safety paradigm to train […]

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The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker

22 December 2024 at 09:40

Autonomous vehicle technology and electrification startups were once the darlings of the VC and corporate world. The two technologies promised billions of dollars in revenue β€” and a new pathway for automakers to make money beyond building and selling cars.Β  Those VC-money-printing days have been over for AVs for a while now, with a few […]

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Apple might be working on a smart doorbell

22 December 2024 at 08:44

There’s been a lot of reporting in recent months around Apple’s efforts to expand its footprint in customers’ homes with in-development products like a wall-mounted smart home hub. According to a new report in Bloomberg, that strategy could also include a smart doorbell. This doorbell would use Apple’s FaceID technology to scan people’s faces as […]

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Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

22 December 2024 at 08:00

LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had β€œno physical agency to actually perform" experiments.

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Yesterday β€” 21 December 2024TechCrunch News

OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

21 December 2024 at 10:30

OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. This echoes an earlier report in The Information suggesting that OpenAI is looking to new strategies as GPT-5 might not represent as big […]

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OpenAI announces new o3 model β€” but you can’t use it yet

21 December 2024 at 10:05

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last β€” and biggest β€” announcement from its β€œ12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s potential entrance into the foldable market; and why Databricks is choosing to wait to go public. Let’s get into it. P.S. We’re off for the holidays! Week in Review […]

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Google pushes back against DOJ’s β€˜interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

21 December 2024 at 08:12

Google has offered up its own proposal in a recent antitrust case that saw the US Department of Justice argue that Google must sell its Chrome browser. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in August that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, with the DOJ then proposing a number […]

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Hollywood angels: Here are the celebrities who are also star VCs

21 December 2024 at 07:00

Becoming a venture capitalist has become the latest status symbol In Hollywood.Β 
Everyone from Olivia Wilde to Emma Watson is investing in startups.

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Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem

21 December 2024 at 06:00

On November 15, Peter Wang posted a message requesting ideas for a new incubator and fund to support experimental projects built on the burgeoning Bluesky/AT Protocol ecosystem. Four weeks later, Skyseed emerged with an initial commitment of $1 million. This turnaround, a speed underscored by the fact that the fund doesn’t even have a website […]

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Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration

20 December 2024 at 16:04

Sam Altman dismissed what he called a "conspiracy theory" from a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen.

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EV startup Canoo places remaining employees on a β€˜mandatory unpaid break’

20 December 2024 at 15:28

Struggling electric van startup Canoo has placed its remaining employees on what it’s calling a β€œmandatory unpaid break” through at least the end of the year, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. The company told employees they are being locked out of Canoo’s systems at the end of the day Friday, according to the […]

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After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed

20 December 2024 at 13:34

On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got β€œcancelled." They used the hate to launch a new product, raise $1 million.

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Third member of LockBit ransomware gang has been arrested

20 December 2024 at 12:20

LockBit is believed tobe responsible for at least $500 million in ransom payments alone.

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Feds clear the way for robotaxis without steering wheels and pedals

20 December 2024 at 12:18

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Friday proposed a new national framework that could make it easier for companies to deploy at scale autonomous vehicles without traditional manual driving controls β€” like steering wheels, pedals, and sideview mirrors.Β  The guidelines also require AV companies to share a whole lot more safety data with […]

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